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...advertiser - Dominos - pulled out, sending MTV's programming president Tony DiSanto on the defensive. He told The Hollywood Reporter that "We actually did pull the word 'guidos' from voiceover and descriptions of the show. However, if [the roommates] refer to themselves that way, we let that exist as is." One of the roomies, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, doesn't see what the big deal is. A Guido, he says, is just "a good-looking Italian guy." (See a story about how to be Italian...
...Part of your role as lawyer is to look for the laws and the amendments that exist and look for the language that will garner the greatest consensus,” he said. “You have to see the constitution as a living document, so you can insure a better future for this country...
...Nkandla among the deep gorges and steep ridges of the Zulu heartland in the southeastern province of what is now called KwaZulu-Natal. Unemployment in South Africa hovers at around 40% but in Nkandla it is 90%. Tarred roads, electricity and running water are a novelty if they exist at all, a quarter of the population is infected with HIV and only 3% graduate from high school. Though he grew up before AIDS, bad health was rife - his father, a policeman, died when he was 3. His mother was a domestic servant for a white family and Zuma dropped...
Elsewhere, such programs do exist. For example, under the auspices of the Homeowners' Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program, Pennsylvania will loan its residents up to $60,000 over the course of two years in the wake of life events such as losing a job or falling severely ill. While a homeowner is out of work, the loan is interest-free. In exchange, the state gains a legal right to the house should the owner default on his or her mortgage...
...them at once inherently meaningless and infinitely meaningful. If the history of twentieth century literature is one of deepening disorder, a collapse of tradition in the wake of Walter Benjamin’s storm of progress, then “2666” is a novel with ambitions to exist at that storm’s center...